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New release: Steffen Bogen / Felix Thürlemann:
Rom. Eine Stadt in Karten, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft / Primus-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-89678-661-6

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Steffen Bogen is Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg.

A Mini-Symposium about „Neural Stem Cells - Differentiation and Applications“ will be held on November 2, 2009 at the University of Konstanz. It is organized by Suzanne Kadereit who is an Associated Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg. Please find more information here.

Gregory A. Miller is Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, USA. He is an outstanding research scientist in his own right. He has published extensively on the psychophysiology of emotional processing, using ERP and neuroimaging methodologies, but has also contributed important papers on statistical and methodological topics. One particularly notable aspect of his work is a careful approach to mindbody and reductionistic…

New Release: Albert Kümmel-Schnur (Ed.), Sympathy for the Devil, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2009, ISBN-10:3-7705-4798-5.
About this book: Radio recension by Thorsten Lorenz in "SWR2 Forum Buch", 19 July 2009 (see p. 12):
http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/swr2-forum-buch/-/id=4945808/property=download/nid=660234/oqqhqk/swr2-forum-buch-20090719.pdf

More from Albert Kümmel-Schnur:

Live on radio on 15 May 2009 with Julian Doepp:
http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/2572;jsessioni…

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Galizia holds the Chair of Zoology and Neurobiology at the University of Konstanz. As from 1 October 2009 he took up a further office as the Director of the Zukunftskolleg. He replaces Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerhart von Graevenitz, who was the founding director of the Zukunftskolleg and the former rector of the University of Konstanz.

Giovanni Galizia assigned as new Director of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz

The new brochure of the Zukunftskolleg was released on 1 October 2009. Please download it here:

Zukunftskolleg Booklet

Zukunftskolleg fellow Jörg Hartig has been awarded with the Hellmut-Bredereck Foundation Award by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) in September 2009.

For more information please visit the website of the GDCH:

http://www.gdch.de/gdch/eps/stiftungen/bredereck.htm

The aim of this conference is bringing together mathematicians from three disciplines within algebra, namely Real Algebra, Valuation Theory, and Quadratic Form Theory. These three fields have been in permanent interaction, but conferences specifically devoted to those interactions have been quite rare in recent years.

The conference is organised by Karim Johannes Becher, Tim Netzer, Daniel Plaumann, and Claus Scheiderer. It is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Zukunfts…

The Zukunftskolleg's doctoral fellowship programme is geared to students at the University of
Konstanz who are in the third year of their doctoral studies. Outstanding young researchers
from all university departments who are in the final phase of their doctoral thesis and are expected
to contribute significantly to the scientific discourse are eligible for funding. Each doctoral
student is mentored by a fellow of the Zukunftskolleg so that they can benefit from engaging
in intellectual exchange with…

Acting on behalf of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft of the University of Konstanz,
the Zukunftskolleg awards the Manfred Ulmer Scholarship to doctoral students every year.
The programme is open to doctoral students of all disciplines and pays 1,000 euros per month
over six months. It enables the scholars to bridge a financial gap between their studies and
their doctoral phase.

This year's winner of the Manfred Ulmer Scholarship is Agata Sadowska.

Agata Sadowska studied sociology and history…

Congratulations to Zukunftskolleg Alumna PD Dr. Kirsten Mahlke. She had an ERC Starting Grant approved, which the EU provides for exzellent junior researchers.

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We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book: Wolfgang Freitag, "Form and Philosophy: A Topology of Possibility and Representation" , Volume 9 of the serial "Philosophische Impulse", edited by Felix Mühlhölzer and Wolfgang Spohn, Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, Synchron Publishers, Heidelberg (2009).

The Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz compliments Fellow Anna Lipphardt on
the Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz which has been bestowed on her by the Auschwitz-
Stiftung for her doctoral thesis on Kulturelle Erinnerung, Trauma, Migration. Die Vilne-
Diaspora in New York, Israel und Vilnius nach dem Holocaust. In autumn 2009 the study will
appear in the series Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung published by Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht. The study has already achieved the…

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Nadine Gaab on July 30th 2009, 12:00 in A704.

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Am Tag der offenen Tür der Universität am 4. Juli 2009 wird sich das Zukunftskolleg an Stand 30 im Foyer vorstellen. Ausserdem gestalten unsere Fellows einen Vortragsblock.

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The inaugural lecture of PD Dr. Mathias Kläui takes place on July 6, 2009 at 17:15 in R 513.

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The Public Reading takes place at 2nd July 2009, 18.00-20.00 in V1001.

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You can find the video to the institutional strategy  „Modell Konstanz - towards a culture of creativity“ on the Video Portal on the Excellence-Initiative.

You can find the new Zukunftskolleg Flyer on the page Downloads.

New Senior Fellow and Award Winner of the Zukunftskolleg Prof. Frank Moorhouse is a prizewinning author from Sydney, Australia.

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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities the Zukunftskolleg will held a colloquium on June 18, 2009 which will be arranged by two groups of the Academy’s WIN program for young scientists.

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We are delighted to welcome Dr. h.c. Heike Schmoll to Konstanz from April to September 2009 as a Senior Fellow and Zukunftskolleg Award winner. She was nominated by Professor Gerhart von Graevenitz.

Heike Schmoll read German and Protestant Theology at Heidelberg, Tübingen and Munich and was a scholarship holder of the Tübinger Stift. Inspired by her studies under Eberhard Jüngel and Wolfhart Pannenberg, her particular interest focused on Systematic Theology. In 1989, she joined the news…

As the only scholar in Baden-Württemberg the Alumnus of the Zukunftskolleg has received the renowned research scholarship opus magnum which has been nationwide awarded to ten scholars of the humanities in 2008.

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Bildspezifische Sinndimensionen von Kleidung in der Vormoderne. International Conference, April 03 - 05, 2009, Organisation PD Dr. David Ganz

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The Zukunftskolleg award has been bestowed on two renowned scientists in february 2009. Professor Daniel R. Gamelin and Professor Viktor V. Kabanov are warmly welcomed as new Senior Fellows.

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We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book edited by Franz Huber, Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, and Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Alumnus of the former Center for Junior Research Fellows, on the achievements of which the Zukunftskolleg is built. For further information on the book please visit http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-9197-1

The "Workshop on future research directions" for the selection of the new Zukunftskolleg Fellows will take place on February, 16.-17., 2009

DFG awarded the Emmy Noether Program to Dr. Iris-Tatjana Kolassa for the project "Stress and trauma-associated immunological changes and their implications on health"

Chronic and traumatic stress, as experienced by persons suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), is associated with poor health, high health care utilization, and an increased risk for a variety of diseases such as cardiovascular, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, stress has been associated with…

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. mult. Harald zur Hausen, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2008/press.html